8.02.2007

Place and Time Collide in Tonga July 07

I am about four weeks into my 'fieldwork', and its like that scholar whats-her-name said, its more like "homework". I attended the TRA conference in Tonga, July 11-14.

From memory, I think that poet Kalo Mila summed it up the feelings of the TRA academic thought waves which pulsed in Nuku'alofa, she said it in a poem she composed just for the event, and read on the closing day. She is really a wonderful poet! I spoke with her briefly because I had heard of a poem she wrote about the flames of 16/11, and she directed me to her blog site at Huia Publishers, where I found the poem...which will be great to discuss when I open my chapter about Eyewitness Accountings of 16/11...that chapter will be about the eye-witness verification for narrative knowledge aka "storytelling".